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How To Automatically Join IRC Servers & Channels With HydraIRC

Last week, I made my attempt at welcoming newbies to the wonderful
world of Internet Relay Chats. This week, we’re going to step things up
to the next level for those of you who have decided that HydraIRC
belongs in your taskbar. If you’re anything like me, you feel it’s
necessary to be in 50 different channels at once (even though you know
you’ll never be able to keep up with all of that).
It’s time for you to learn how to save yourself a lot of time at
every startup and automate the process of joining your favorite IRC
servers and channels. This is, by the way, another reason why HydraIRC
is the superior client to those of you who are new to the chat universe.
Creating “scripts” is incredibly simple and intuitive.
Let’s start off by going into the Options menu and clicking Prefs…. A window of preferences should then pop up for you.
On the left, click Scripts. At this point, you should see a single option of “SomeNetwork_OnLoggedIn“.
In my screenshot, you’ll see many more because I’ve set up autojoins
on several servers. Nonetheless, this is an example script profile that
HydraIRC has created for you. Using it alone, some users can gauge how
to set up their scripts. You can learn a little more about command/script profiles on the official website, but let me do some basic explaining.

HydraIRC has three built-in profile name suffixes that trigger the
program to automatically execute a script. These three are as follows:

OnStartUp, which will execute the script immediately when the application is launched.

OnLoggedIn, which will execute the script when you have joined a particular server.

OnJoin, which will execute the script when you join a particular channel.

By creating profiles with the names “OnStartUp”, “{SERVER}_OnLoggedIn”, or “~{SERVER}_{CHANNEL}_OnJoin”,
you are authorizing HydraIRC to automatically execute the scripts
during those conditions. If we wanted a script to automatically execute
when we join the EFNet server, we’d name the profile “EFNet_OnLoggedIn“. If we wanted to execute the script only when we join the #chat channel on EFNet, we’d name it “~EFNet_#chat_OnJoin“.
Let’s go over an example. We’ll use GameSurge, as we did in my first
post. By default, it is included with HydraIRC. On the server list, it
is given the exact name “GameSurge” (which will need to be exact, case sensitive, in the profile name).
On Gamesurge, we’d like to automatically join #sourcemod, #gamesurge, and #linux when we connect. So we’ve done the hard part. Now here’s our script, “GameSurge_OnLoggedIn”:/quietjoin sourcemode,gamesurge,linux
It’s very simple. The “/quietjoin” command is ideal when
you’re joining multiple channels at once as it softens each join.
Afterwards, the channel names (pound signs are not required) delimited
by commas.
Now what if you want to automatically join GameSurge every time you
launch HydraIRC? That’s simple also. Your script profile would be “OnStartUp”:/server irc.gamesurge.net
That’s it. At this point, when you start HydraIRC you’d now
automatically connect to the GameSurge server and automatically join
those three channels. Do you want to connect to multiple servers on
startup? Just add a new line with the following (with FreeNode in this
example):/newserver irc.freenode.net
Every power IRC uses user scripts. Automation is one of my favorite
things in the world, and you’ll find that automating certain parts of
your chatting experience will allow you to do what you came to do –
enjoy it. If I’ve still been unable to convince you that HydraIRC is the way to go, check out a few interesting scripts for mIRC.

This one is a classic. I can remember the first time a friend introduced me to this. After three I was laughing because they were so smooth then I stood up. Then something happened (obvious censoring) and everyone laughed at me for months after. Good times. The Long Island Ice Tea was long the king (queen?) of all strong alcoholic mixed drinks, and still deserves a place on the list.

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#4: Irish Car Bomb.

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